Playa Vaca

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What you'll see (19)

Atlantic Sergeant MajorAbudefduf saxatilisseen 21× near here

Longspined PorcupinefishDiodon holocanthusseen 12× near here

Sally Lightfoot CrabGrapsus grapsusseen 12× near here

Honeycomb CowfishAcanthostracion polygoniumseen 10× near here

Blackbar SoldierfishMyripristis jacobusseen 9× near here

Western Atlantic TrumpetfishAulostomus maculatusseen 8× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 8× near here

Spotted ScorpionfishScorpaena plumieriseen 7× near here

Smooth TrunkfishLactophrys triqueterseen 7× near here

Common LionfishPterois volitansseen 6× near here

Sand DiverSynodus intermediusseen 6× near here

Princess ParrotfishScarus taeniopterusseen 6× near here

Redband ParrotfishSparisoma aurofrenatumseen 6× near here

Mottled SeahareAplysia brasilianaseen 6× near here

Lynx PhidianaPhidiana lynceusseen 6× near here

Atlantic SpadefishChaetodipterus faberseen 5× near here

Caribbean Bluehead WrasseThalassoma bifasciatumseen 5× near here

Bicolor DamselfishStegastes partitusseen 5× near here

Atlantic Rock-boring UrchinEchinometra lucunterseen 5× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

18,596km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 9 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul.

From 1,897 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~36h 51m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightAruba (AUA)~26h 57mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~7h 24mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatPlaya Vaca~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Playa Vaca on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Aruba

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Isla El Morro
Country: Colombia
Marks: 11°15.610'N 74°12.056'W
Position: 11.2602, -74.2009

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.